Length59m
About this audiobook
In the poem that opens her debut collection, Susan Okie recounts an evening in the anatomy lab. Here we witness the depths of her curiosity toward her subject's inner workings. When I tugged on the flexor digitorum tendons, / her fingers partly closed and her thumb /crooked in. I seemed to see the two of us / as if from outside, and could no longer / name the tendons. I felt my fingers / from inside her hand." What to some might feel like harrowing proximity, Okie delivers, in astonishing verse, with wonder and even intimacy. To be sure,
Woman at the Crossing is the work of a seasoned practitioner.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length59 mins
Narrated bySusan Okie
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 7, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
28Onlakevictoria 1992
2Section 1
29Thenewwidow
3Intheanatomylab
30Herface
4Theblackdogwakesuswithfishbreath
31Selfportrait 730am 01
5Learningtodrink
32Formyfather
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6Adeadloon
33Ivisitmyfatherinthehospitalmidwaythroughpregnancy
7Therainsbegininwesternkenya
34Twomothers
8Womanatthecrossing
35Womensworkkisumukenya
9Willyofkisumukenya
36Judith
10Adoctorseyeignaciosfoot
37Totsvetayeva
11Ingreatvillage
38Adoctorseyeafterthemammogram
12Slippery
39Adoctorseyethenewpatient
13Section 2
40Insideout
14Thelifeofsecrets
41Metamorphosis
15Thedictionary
42Section 4
16Myparentspicniconcorregidor
43Prayerinthewinterdesert
17Myfatherinmexicocity 1921
44Trackingthemother
18Undertaking
45Tothespiritsofchacocanyon
19Withinbounds
46Elizabethbishopinjectsherselfwithadrenalineforasthma
20Myfavoriteyear
47Lovesaustereandlonelyoffices
21Theendofpacificoceanpark
48Standoffonthemarshtrail
22Thefilly
49Cucumber
23Interiorwithyoungwoman
50Onthedockinthedark
24Inhades
51Solitude
25Adoctorseyetheybedofcrimsonjoy
52Disappearancesmountrainier
26Towardoffices
53Perseid
27Section 3
54Outro
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